Shalini Pandey

Shalini Pandey made her debut in Bollywood films opposite Ranveer Singh in the film Jayeshbhai Jordaar.  

Shalini had made her screen debut in Telugu films such as Arjun Reddy in 2017, Mahanati in 2018, and 118 in 2019.   She had then appeared in a Tamil film 1005 Kdhal in 2019. In 2022 Besides her debut in the Hindi film Jayeshbhai Jordaar , she also acted in Maharaj in 2024. 

Her breakthrough was between 2017 and 2018 with her major commercial success in the films that earned her the SIIMA Award for the Best Female Debut. She also earned a Telugu nomination.

Shalini had made her Hindi debut in a cameo appearance in Meri Nimmo.  She had five releases in 2018. She had played Wocar Janaki in the film NTR Katanayakudu in Tamil. She then went on to play the lead in Telugu film 118 opposite Nandamuri Kalyan Ram. The film was a commercial hit. 

Shalini essayed the role of a college student opposite G.V. Prakash Kumar in the film 100% Kadhal. The film failed at the box office.  Her next film was a Tamil film in which she played the lead role opposite Jijva in Gorilla, and another film in the same year opposite Raj Tarun in the Telugu film Iddari Lokam Okate. 

Shalini Pandey had a career expansion between the years 2020 and the Present. In 2020, film Bamfaad, a romantic action film in which she played a Hindu girl who falls in love with a Muslim boy played by Aditya Rawal.  The same year, she also starred in Nishabdham, a Telugu film.

Shalini had then portrayed as a Gujarati housewife opposite the famous actor Ranveer Singh in 2022. The film was a comedy about female infanticide.   Ranveer Singh, as her husband, is trying to save the life of his unborn girl child. Boman Irani and Ratna Pathak Shah play the conservative parents of Ranveer Singh.  The film marked the directorial debut of the actor-turned-director Divyang Thakkar in Vishal -Shekhar and Amit Trivedi, who gave music to the film. 

After a year's hiatus, Shalini had another brief role opposite Junaid Khan in the 2024 Hindi film Maharaj, which was released on Netflix.  

Shalini Pandey starred as Raji in the Netflix series Dabba Cartel alongside Shabana Azmi in the lead. A story of a group of women operating a drug cartel under the guise of food delivery tiffins. She is also appearing in the film Idly Kadai opposite Dhanush.